AFP: Veteran Palestinian leader Habash dies 28 January

He was 80 and had been suffering from a heart condition. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Habash a "historic leader" and declared 3-days of mourning for the PFLP founder. Hamas said Habash's death was a "huge loss" for the Palestinian cause. Throughout his life Habash opposed peace with Israel. A refugee from the 1948 war of Israel's creation in British-ruled Palestine, he lived in exile in Jordan. The PFLP burst onto the world stage in the late 1960s with a series of airline hijackings, kidnappings and murders, but the movement found itself increasingly sidelined in the early 1990s when Yasser Arafat, then leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) signed interim peace deal with Israel.

Smith helped found the Rhodesian Front, and was notorious for his insistence that there was nothing wrong with millions of blacks being ruled by 200,000 whites. Born in the small Southern Rhodesian mining town of Selukwe on April 8, 1919, the son of a farmer, Ian Douglas Smith was educated locally and at Rhodes University in South Africa, where he gained a degree in commerce.

Miami, Florida - John L Lewis, veteran CIO leader and United Mine Workers Chief, poses with William Green of the American Federation of Labour after his epochal move in bringing the mine group back in AFL ranks.

Walid Obeidi was killed in the occupied West Bank by troops operating in the town of Qabatiya near the city of Jenin. Islamic Jihad said Walid Obeidi was wanted for years by Israel.

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At least one Israeli was killed in the attack, the first suicide bombing in Israel for more than a year. The attack took place in a shopping centre in Dimona, where the country's top secret nuclear facility is located.. A source in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction said Fatah-linked militants carried out the attack along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The Marxist PFLP's founder George Habash, who died last week, opposed peace with the Jewish state.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert will meet at a U.S.-hosted conference in Annapolis, Maryland to relaunch talks on ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.